<p>D called, she wants to know where I got my MBA for AMCAS? What is the deal there?
Are they trying to find out if parents schooling is a hook?</p>
<p>No.</p>
<p>Level of parental education is one indicator used by AMCAS in determining if an applicant is socio-economcally disadvantaged. </p>
<p>AMCAS doesn’t ask for the name of the institution that awarded a parent’s degrees, but it does ask if the degrees were earned at a US/Canadian or a foreign university.</p>
<p>Read about the various SES levels and how AMCAS uses each indicator here:</p>
<p><a href=“https://www.aamc.org/download/330166/data/seseffectivepractices.pdf”>https://www.aamc.org/download/330166/data/seseffectivepractices.pdf</a></p>
<p>I take it back. I just looked at D2’s AMCAS application. It does ask for the name of the institution awarding the parent’s highest academic degree.</p>
<p>But it still has to do with determining SES disadvantaged status.</p>
<p>The parent having a grad degree isn’t considered a “hook”–in fact, it’s the opposite. It’s an indicator of advantaged SES background.</p>
<p>One of my HS kids (I was in PTA) his Dad is a physician, he got into the USC bs/md program, thought his father’s MD status has some thing to do with it.</p>
<p>^^ Well, SES Is a hook, just that they are looking for the opposite. for the less educated family it is a hook. Just like first generation college kids.</p>
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I am aware of a case where not only both his father and his grandfather are MDs, both of them had been graduated from the med school the offspring was applying/admitted. even a lab that is used by every student is named after his family.</p>
<p>We both have an MBA. This is something new. D. did not need to know anything about our education when she was applying, unless I do not remember her asking us about it.
The thing that is important is if parent is working for Medical School, then a kid has a chance of free Medical school… At least, this is the case at our local Medical School. I know several of D’s friends whose parents made sure that kids apply at school that they are affiliated with, all ended up there for free. Other than that, who cares about it? Just fill whatever is asked. Most likely I do not remember because I did not pay any attention</p>
<p>@MiamiDAP The parental education question is not something new. D1 also had to answer this when she applied–and my D and your D applied the same year. Your D probably already knew the answer so just filled it out without asking you.</p>
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I heard of such a policy for a certain college. But this is new to me that this is also true for some med school. Interesting! This really would give a lot of incentives for such a kid to get into his parent works there.</p>
<p>I heard of a case that a student works for a med school for 4 years after college. Also, both of her retired parents volunteered there for many years also. Eventually, she got into that med school. Not sure whether her working experience there helped her a little bit to get into that med school. It is a med school on the west coast that is supposedly not easy to get in.</p>
<p>No, I ma talking about cases when MD is actually working at Med. School. Yes, there are several cases. Maybe no only MD, maybe even nurses. Not sure. </p>
<p>I can relate to that. If parents are working for a “school”, their kids can attend that school tuition free.
My wife is working for CSU in administrative position and our kids could go to that CSU tuition free, with high discounts to attend other CSU’s. Employees of schools are paid lot less than comparable industry positions. The free tuition is a kind of compensation and incentive.</p>